Don Bohm:
Love the Iron Man mini statues from Bowen. I wanted the Full Size ones, but they are rare and expensive!

I bought one at a convention and the other on Ebay about two years ago. Got them both for what I considered reasonable prices. I don't seem them online as much as I used to, but I still see them for around $175 now and then.

The only thing I don't like about them is the gold coloring. It's too dark and doesn't look like how I'd imagine Iron Man's armor to be colored.

I agree on the gold, be cool if it were gold chrome, but I usually see the Classic version, ( on the right) to be over $200 if I can even find it. The Silver Age ( left) is more readily avalible it seems, for abround the $175 you mentioned. And then theres the Classic bust.... sheesh!

The only thing I don't like about them is the gold coloring. It's too dark and doesn't look like how I'd imagine Iron Man's armor to be colored.

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An inherent problem with gold. Despite being called the "yellow metal", and being thus coloring in every comicbook since the Dawn of Time, gold is really a shade of brown, leaning to ochre. It just doesn't look right when characters we are used to seeing colored yellow turn up in their "accurate" colors.

I discovered this myself, when I was about 14, and I made a model out of clay of the original Iron Man armor, and painted it dutifully with gold paint (just as had Tony Stark in the issue I had just picked up). Didn't look right, but I was too anal even then to even think about painting it yellow.

An inherent problem with gold. Despite being called the "yellow metal", and being thus coloring in every comicbook since the Dawn of Time, gold is really a shade of brown, leaning to ochre. It just doesn't look right when characters we are used to seeing colored yellow turn up in their "accurate" colors.

I discovered this myself, when I was about 14, and I made a model out of clay of the original Iron Man armor, and painted it dutifully with gold paint (just as had Tony Stark in the issue I had just picked up). Didn't look right, but I was too anal even then to even think about painting it yellow.

Awake with insomnia this morning, I found a fun -- well, for an obsessive compulsive like me! -- way to spend my time. The shelves in my studio are made of those snap-together metal "milk crates", grids that form five sides leaving one open. Turns out the squares of the grids are just the size of the normal bases on the 3" lef figures. So I decided to rearrange my collectionnnnn to leave spaces for all the figures thusfar announced, each to a square, in three rows, off-set. Interesting to see how the figures clump together, and the spaces between others. The Green Goblin must have serious B.O.! He's all alone in a wide space.

My first trip to my LCS since late last year brought some new toys to my desk. Bowen's Shaman is a very welcome addition to my Alpha Flight collection. Kitty Pryde is nearly a full size statue. I'm a little worried she might tip forward, it's a pretty narrow base. Both are sculpted by JBF's Jim Maddox and are gorgeous work.

My first of the Classic Marvel Figurines. Thor needs some touch up paint work, but other than that, I'm really happy with the quality. I was glad to see they aren't all the same height, either. Ben is about a head shorter than the other two.